Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe formula
Below is a list of describing words for formula. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe formula:
- long-successful economic
- series--general
- new power-sharing
- oft-repeated dual
- comprehensive but barbarous
- barren republican
- supposedly sure
- unique analgesic
- seductive modal
- same dental
- meaner democratic
- apply precise
- secret exclusive
- rational approximate
- coherent and possible
- steadfast and sufficient
- oldest basic
- pat academic
- concise, imperative
- bloodless and philosophical
- universal algebraic
- triply triple
- ancient confessional
- prismoidal
- vague polite
- mexican baptismal
- ancient rhythmical
- inane and empty
- city-bred medical
- ancient and wonder-working
- professedly moderate
- poetical, quaint
- somewhat liturgical
- simplest enigmatical
- short algebraic
- active and exhaustive
- different and apparently degraded
- mechanical or intellectual
- classic newtonian
- exact magical
- admirable republican
- six-common-mineral
- mystic and unquestioned
- general blank
- absolute, decisive
- cooperative inclusive
- competitive, divisive
- external, phonetic
- complete and generally comprehensive
- mystic and perishable
- traditional and arbitrary
- specifically celtic
- silly algebraic
- new, polite
- comprehensive journalistic
- chloropal
- narrowly romantic
- abstract and compact
- vulgar but precise
- loud monotone
- extremely scientific and accurate
- correct and primary
- comprehensive, scientific
- illiptical
- anti-social and anti-christian
- usual statical
- cautious rural
- depressing mathematical
- embarrassing preliminary
- convenient verbal
- cautious or hopeful
- abstract, symbolical
- abbreviated or metaphorical
- would-be universal
- convenient but inexact
- unavoidable constitutional
- transient constitutional
- general cut-and-dried
- pseudo impressive
- indispensable but unnecessary
- christological baptismal
- own algebraic
- invariable and unquestioned
- precise and depressing
- _accentual
- useful but superficial
- childish foolish
- vague stoical
- cruelly mathematical
- irrationally inverted
- scientific and therefore universal
- explicit analytical
- habitual sceptical
- terrible but decisive
- exclusive theocratical
- exclusive theological
- recondite and dangerous
- plausible and apparently pious
- valuable techno-chemical
- crisp and comprehensive
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Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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